Potentially, the jury system offers a very democratic way to put art on the walls. How many of your exhibiting artists have an art background, and how many are making art in a self-taught way?
Honestly, the biggest difference between trained and untrained doesn’t come out in the art as much as in the process of jurying the show – from the slides in their presentation. We actually devised a workshop addressing this, because we saw the need. Even people who have shown and exhibited are rather shocked when they see their slides on the wall. We show them the best and the worst and in between, and you can see why some people will get in shows and others won’t. One of the things we tell women in a workshop is that if you’re really serious about your work, you have to be prepared to spend money on your career. You can do your work for yourself, and there’s not one thing wrong with that. But if you want to show, there’s a different standard, and you have to meet it if you want to be successful.
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